STRIP 2,041
October 1, 2004
Would you believe I drew my 2,000th SUPEROSITY strip over a month ago and didn't even realize it? Yowsa!

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AGAIN!
September 15, 2004
I am 27 today. So please forgive me that I haven't declared the winners of the trivia challenge yet (I will do it in December and it will be like CHRISTMAS IN DECEMBER).

And because I enjoy receiving money in my E-Mail, I cannot help but ask my loyal Superositites to PLEASE SEND ME BIRTHDAY MONEY. As always, I will continue to hope that there is an eccentric trillionaire out there who enjoys SUPEROSITY and will send me a billion dollars as a lark. And then I can finally bring you all the $300 million-budgeted SUPEROSITY feature film I have been dreaming of for seconds now.

LIVE FROM THE HAUNTED SCHOOL.
August 31, 2004
Yes, I am still alive. The comics are not being drawn by a ghost in Wyoming.

Just thought I'd say so. More later!

GREETINGS FROM WYOMING!
July 2, 2004
I'm writing this from a motel room in Wyoming (where I also drew today's and tomorrow's strips) on the road to my new home in Cresbard, South Dakota. We bought a big elementary and high school building that is no longer in use and we're going to live and work there. Nutty, huh? We should get there in a few days. Wish me luck!

Oh, and the contest winners will be announced shortly after I settle into South Dakota. And I'll try to make the storyline featuring the contest winner be the BEST STORYLINE EVER.

AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN. I'LL LET YOU KNOW!
June 1, 2004
Sorry, I'm moving to South Dakota and it's a lot of work, and also my Outlook Express isn't working right AGAIN.

AGAIN AGAIN. MAY 20. OR JUNE 1, POSSIBLY.
May 13, 2004
I'm not trying to get out of awarding a prize or anything, it's just that every waking moment is currently being spent putting together Keenspot's new Free Comic Book Day titles in order to get them to print in time and I haven't taken the time to send out questions to a lot of people who asked for them. Soon!

Sorry, but at least I deliver the COMIC STRIP on time every day. That's the important thing.

AGAIN. MAY 10.
May 5, 2004
Soooo busy.

DEADLINE FOR TRIVIA CHALLENGE EXTENDED AGAIN, THIS TIME TO MAY 5!
April 30, 2004
I've been extra busy and lately my mail has been down, so I've still got trivia questions to send out. Deadline extended again to May 5th.

TRIVIA CHALLENGE DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1!
April 12, 2004
I've been too busy to send out random trivia questions in a timely manner, so the challenge is being extended to May 1st, after which the winners will be announced. Thank you for loving SUPEROSITY!

READ MY NEW STRIP WITH THE PRETTY ART!
March 8, 2004
Would you believe there's a SECOND webcomic by me for you to enjoy? Because there IS! It's called SORE THUMBS (you should be able to see a drawing of the lovely lead character Cecania in the Keenspot Newsbox to the left of this if you're reading it on March 8), and it starts today. I co-created it with my brilliant artist pal Owen Gieni, I write it and he draws it. It's kinda like SUPEROSITY, only the drawings are beautiful instead of ugly and the characters are actually somewhat relatable instead of being talking blue boards and guys in capes for no reason. It's about a liberal activist who is forced to work in her crazy conservative brother's video game shop after graduating college. It's got some of that nutty humor and insane characters that you've grown to love reading this strip, but it's a bit more mature and political than SUPEROSITY usually is.

It's only been online for a few hours and it's already got roughly a kajillion readers, some of whom have already formed clubs with funny names (seriously!), so it must be good. Join the SORE THUMBS revolution today!

Oh, and the SUPEROSITY TRIVIA CHALLENGE (see below) continues until the end of March, when the winners will be announced. I've been overjoyed by how many correct answers I'm getting to the trivia questions, some of them I'm not even sure I could answer myself without looking it up. You guys rule!

5 YEARS... AND A CHALLENGE!
March 1, 2004
It's been FIVE YEARS. Today's strip is the first day of YEAR SIX. Can you believe it? I can, but only because I've personally written and drawn all 1,826 comic strips that make up those five years! Looking back on those 1,826 days, I'm pretty satisfied. It's not the best comic strip ever, but I like it a lot. I'd be a bit happier if more people were reading it after all this time, but that's not what ultimately drives me to create SUPEROSITY, so whatever.

And YET... I assume there are a few new people visiting today from the Keenspot Newsbox appearance (heya, new people!). To those people, I offer A CHALLENGE. A GIANT-SIZED CHALLENGE. I challenge you to read ALL 1,826 strips in the archive, starting here. It may be difficult, but if it wasn't, it wouldn't be a CHALLENGE (Dan Shive was man enough, and I didn't even have to CHALLENGE him!). When you're done reading all 1,826 strips, E-Mail me and tell me so, and I will send you a random SUPEROSITY TRIVIA QUESTION that anyone who has read the full archive recently should be able to answer. If you DO answer it correctly, you will be included in a RANDOM PRIZE DRAWING, and five of those people (assuming there are that many people brave enough to take my CHALLENGE) will be picked randomly to win a PRIZE. I'm not sure exactly what it will be yet, but it'll be cool, and the first person picked will win a CAMEO APPEARANCE in SUPEROSITY, a strip you have read the full archives of!

CHALLENGE... GO!

LATE-BREAKING NEWS: My little brother Bobby, who I love like a brother, is celebrating the 5th anniversary of SUPEROSITY in his own unique style: by launching an ALL-NEW COMIC STRIP! This one's called THE NON-IDENTICAL TRIPLET, and it's up to you to decide whether it surpasses PUPKIN in greatness. As of yet, I vote... NO. But it's your call!

WEIGHT LOSS PROGRESS PROGRESSES
January 30, 2004
FYI for those of you who care about such things, I'm back on a diet and am updating my Weight Loss Progress thingy. And no, it's not Atkins, just a low-calorie diet. Trying to keep under 1500 a day and keep things simple. If you are glad I am back on a diet, or have anything else to say, E-Mail me and say so. I like hearing from you even if I do not always (read: almost never, I am horrible) respond.

THIS TIME HE-MAN NEEDS YOUR HELP!
January 26, 2004
I'm not the world's biggest fan of the new anime-style HE-MAN & THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE series airing on Cartoon Network, as I love the cheesily lovable classic original Filmation version so very very much... but He-Man is He-Man. And he currently needs our help, according to a classy gent named Glenn Young who E-Mailed me about this. Help He-Man Here. We have the power!

HAPPY TWENTY-O-FOUR!
January 1, 2004
Last year in this space, I said "2003 is gonna rock newschool. For seriously." I was wrong. But hey, how about if THIS time I predict that 2004 will NOT rock newschool. Then maybe the opposite will happen and it WILL rock newschool! If so, I now predict that 2004 will NOT rock newschool. Also, I apologize for using the "word" "newschool" so many times in so few sentences.

Whatever the case, if you really wanna make 2004 rock "newschool" for yourself and for the rest of the world, tell everybody you know that General Wes Clark is SO DAMN AWESOME and make them watch this video. That way, next year in this space I just might have something to be happy about! Or not.

Oh, and I also predict that I will gain lots of weight this year. LOTS. (And also, Hanson will buy their own baseball team and get to the World Series.)